The legacy of deconstruction

"Those people who felt they stood on shaky foundations suddenly had a home for their native anti-foundationalism. They too could become theorists. Think of it as a job creation program for all intellectual nerds, outcasts and misfits, people whose kind of intelligence meant that they weren�t even comfortable around most other intelligent people."

The above excerpt is from Marco Roth's thoughts on the death of Jacques Derrida.